Word: papering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...flew away with the presidency this year, and it is well nigh time for election procedure to enter the 21st century along with the rest of the country. The signs of the time demand attention: The word "chad" has replaced "confetti" as the popular term for "small piece of paper" and thousands of votes, in counties from Palm Beach in Florida to Cook County in Illinois, were discarded due to appropriately labeled "voting irregularities" and double punching...
...after the vote required a different response in each county. In some, the situation demanded a simple hand count of mechanically tallied ballots to ensure proper operation of machines. In others, a committee of experts had to be called in to scrutinize "dimples" on index-card-sized sheets of paper, to assess voter intent. In a national election, there simply isn't a reason why procedures should not to be as uniform as possible across the nation or at least within each state...
Zotter was in the draft's host hotel, keeping track of the results with a piece of paper in hand, when the words "Harvard University" were announced...
...none other than Harvard University appears to be following suit - sort of. Last week Harvard posted a paper on the admissions section of its website entitled "Time Out or Burn Out for the Next Generation." It is less a research study than a doomsday screed. The paper recounts horror story after horror story of stressed-out kids being foisted with consultants to get into elite grammar schools "with lower admission rates than Harvard" and being booked themselves solid with exotic hobbies and activities in order to wow admissions officers. The paper goes on to forecast a generation of thirty...
This scary scenario thus painted, the paper also offers a way out, offering alternatives to life in the boot-camp trenches, including spending more "down-time" in early childhood, eschewing educational vacations for "old-fashioned summer jobs," and not choosing a college "simply based on brand name or reputation." But the surest road to relaxation, it says, is to take a year off before college. It may also be a good path to admission, and will surely be interpreted that way by educators, parents and kids who are doubtless already reading between the document's lines to divine parcels...